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S.I. No. 637/2020 - Statistics (Census of Population) Order 2020
Table of Provisions (6)
Statutory Text (6 Articles)
1. Information regarding the following housing characteristics and facilities of a private household referred to in Article 3(a) on census night or the following morning
(
a
) age of building;
(
b
) type of dwelling;
(
c
) whether the accommodation is owned or rented and, where the accommodation is rented, category of landlord;
(
d
) number of rooms;
(
e
) type of fuel used by central heating;
(
f
) type of piped water supply;
(
g
) type of sewerage facilities;
(
h
) where the accommodation is rented, the amount of rent paid and frequency of such payment;
(
i
) number of working smoke alarms;
(
j
) whether the accommodation uses renewable energy sources;
(
k
) number of cars or vans owned or available for use by members of the household;
(
l
) type of internet connection and type of devices used to access the internet.
2. Information regarding the following, as it relates to each person to whom Article 3(b) or 5, as the case may be, applies on census night or the following morning
(
a
) first name and surname;
(
b
) sex;
(
c
) date of birth;
(
d
) in the case of a person who occupies a private household, relationship to each other person who occupies the household on census night or the following morning;
(
e
) in the case of a person who has attained the age of 15 years, marital status;
(
f
) place of birth;
(
g
) usual residence;
(
h
) usual residence on 3 April 2021;
(
i
) whether the person has lived outside the State for a continuous period of a year or more and, if so -
(i) country of last previous usual residence, and
(ii) year of last taking up residence in the State;
(
j
) country of citizenship;
(
k
) ethnic group or ethnic background;
(
l
) religion;
(
m
) in the case of a person who has attained the age of 3 years, ability to speak the Irish language and, if so able, frequency of speaking and level of Irish and, where Irish is spoken daily, whether it is so spoken within or outside the education system;
(
n
) whether a language other than English or Irish is spoken by the person at home and, where it is, the language concerned and the person’s ability to speak English;
(
o
) health, including any long-lasting conditions or difficulties and the extent and effect of any such conditions and difficulties;
(
p
) whether tobacco products are used and, if so, the frequency of such use;
(
q
) usual means of travel for the journey from home to work, school, college or childcare;
(
r
) usual time of leaving home for work, school, college or childcare;
(
s
) time taken for the journey referred to in subparagraph (q);
(
t
) usual time of leaving work, school, college or childcare to return home;
(
u
) whether the person provides regular, unpaid personal help or support to another person and, where so provided, the number of hours so provided per week;
(
v
) whether the person regularly engages in unpaid help or voluntary work in a social or charitable organisation, a religious or church group, a sporting organisation, a political organisation or his or her community;
(
w
) in the case of a person who has attained the age of 15 years -
(i) whether his or her full-time education has ceased and, where it has, the age at which it ceased,
(ii) the highest level of education and training completed, and
(iii) present principal economic status;
(
x
) in the case of a person who has attained the age of 15 years who is employed -
(i) employment status,
(ii) occupation and, where the occupation is that of farmer, the size of the area farmed,
(iii) business of employer or in the case of a person who is self-employed, his or her own business,
(iv) name and address of place of work, and
(v) whether the person ever works from home and, if so, the number of days so worked per week;
(
y
) in the case of a person who has attained the age of 15 years who is unemployed -
(i) previous employment status,
(ii) previous occupation and, where the previous occupation was that of farmer, the size of the area previously farmed, and
(iii) previous employer’s business or in the case of a person who was self-employed, his or her own business;
(
z
) in the case of a person who has attained the age of 15 years who is retired -
(i) previous employment status, and
(ii) previous occupation and, where the previous occupation was that of farmer, the size of the area previously farmed;
(
aa
) in the case of a person attending school or college, name and address of school or college, as the case may be;
(
bb
) in the case of a person who has not attained the age of 15 years, whether the person is in childcare, and if so-
(i) name and address of childcare provider,
(ii) type of childcare, and
(iii) number of hours spent in childcare per week during term-times.
3. Information regarding the following, as it relates to each person to whom Article 3(d) applies on census night or the following morning
(
a
) first name and surname;
(
b
) sex;
(
c
) date of birth and age;
(
d
) country of citizenship;
(
e
) in the case of a member of the household who was not in the State, the country where he or she resided;
(
f
) in the case of a member of the household who was in the State, the address at which he or she resided.
4. Information regarding the following, as it relates to each person to whom Article 3(e) applies on census night or the following morning
(
a
) first name and surname;
(
b
) sex;
(
c
) date of birth;
(
d
) relationship to each other person who occupies the private household on census night or the following morning;
(
e
) in the case of a person who has attained the age of 15 years, marital status;
(
f
) length of absence from household;
(
g
) whether or not in the State;
(
h
) country of citizenship.
5. Information regarding the following as it relates to a residential communal establishment or vessel, as the case may be, referred to in Article 4, on census night or the following morning
(
a
) type of residential communal establishment or vessel, as the case may be;
(
b
) first name and surname of the persons who are alive and in the State at midnight on Sunday 3 April 2022 and occupy the establishment or vessel, as the case may be;
(
c
) confirmation in respect of each person referred to in subparagraph (b) as to whether an individual form was issued to and collected from the person by the manager or other person in charge of the establishment or by the master or other person in charge of the vessel, as the case may be.
GIVEN under my Official Seal,
15 December, 2020.
MICHEÁL MARTIN,
Taoiseach.
1 OJ. No. L 218, 13.8.2008, p. 14
1 OJ. No. L 218, 13.8.2008, p. 14
Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in
“Iris Oifigiúil” of
29
th December,
2020.
I, MICHEÁL MARTIN, Taoiseach, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by
section 25
(1) of the
Statistics Act 1993
(No. 21 of 1993) and, in relation to paragraphs 1(a) to (g), 2(b) to (j), (w)(ii) to (x)(iv), (y) and (z), 3(b) to (f), 4(b) to (h) and 5 of the Schedule to the following order, for the purpose of giving full effect to Regulation (EC) No. 763/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008
1
, hereby order as follows